The Germans didn't need to believe he was a threat originally, they just wanted to seize the money they'd thought he'd made spreading "lies" about them.
The Germans didn't need to believe he was a threat originally, they just wanted to seize the money they'd thought he'd made spreading "lies" about them.
My comment is partly a response to Matt Yglesias' take that Laszlo's anti-Nazi activities were "totally unimportant":
https://www.slowboring.com/p/end-of-the-mailbag-as-we-know-it
The Germans didn't need to believe he was a threat originally, they just wanted to seize the money they'd thought he'd made spreading "lies" about them.